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Building Earth's Largest Library: Driving into the Future.

Coffman, Steve – Searcher, 1999

Examines the Amazon.com online bookstore as a blueprint for designing the world's largest library. Topics include selection; accessibility and convenience; quality of Web sites and search tools; personalized service; library collection development, including interlibrary loan; library catalogs and catalog records; a circulation system; costs;…

Descriptors: Access to Information, Bibliographic Records, Bookstores, Costs

E-Global Library: The Academic Campus Library Meets the Internet.

Heilig, Jean M. – Searcher, 2001

Describes e-global library, the first Internet-based virtual library designed for online students at Jones International University and that has grown into a separately licensable product. Highlights include marketing to other academic libraries, both online and traditional; fees; the e-global library model; collection development policies;…

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Futures (of Society), Higher Education